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This news piece is from Reuters and reports that Governments in the Asia-Pacific region face the risk of unprecedented numbers of people displaced by floods, storms and other impacts of climate change, according to a report from Asian Development Bank (ADB).

The Asian University for Women in Bangladesh invites people to contribute with papers to the conference: "Changing nature of forced migration: vulnerabilities and responsibilities in south and southeast Asia" on 22, 23,24 September 2011. The deadline for submission is March 15, 2011.

This blog/article from the poverty matters blog (http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters) published on The Guardian site (http://www.guardian.co.uk/) is about migrant workers in Malaysia.

Anti-Slavery International and ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation) are launching a campaign to highlight the forced labour of Nepali migrant workers to the Gulf States and to call for an improvement in the fundamental rights of workers across the region.

According to Migration News(http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/) they "...summarize[s] and analyze[s] the most important immigration and integration developments of the preceding quarter. Topics are grouped by region: North America, Europe, Asia and Other". This is an excerpt from Migration News January 2011 Volume 18 Number 1 on Southeast Asia.

According to http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/about_mn.php "Migration News summarizes and analyzes the most important immigration and integration developments of the preceding quarter. Topics are grouped by region: North America, Europe, Asia and Other". This is an excerpt from Migration News January 2011 Volume 18 Number 1 on Southeast Asia.

This news story from the Australia Network News and it says that the Australian business sector and migration employment advocates are urging the immigration department in Australia to put resources into addressing the backlog of applications from skilled migrants.

This article from The Phnom Penh Post reveals that private companies will be prohibited from recruiting Cambodian labour for work in South Korea from January 1, in an attempt to prevent any potential human trafficking and exploitation.

In Bangladesh for Migrants Day, 18 December, BRAC Advocacy Unit’s Safe Migration Facilitation Centre (SMFC) organised a two-day long “Migration and Development Fair” jointly with Government, at Rangpur by bringing together all the stakeholders, Government officials, NGO, Civil Society Recruiting Agency and Student Counselors under one umbrella of safe migration.